Indian Railways - a factfile (with accident story)

A factfile on Indian Railways which runs the world’s second largest railroad network under a single management:

-The network comprises 64,015 route km with 6,906 railway stations

-It runs 18,518 trains, of which over 11,000 are passenger trains

- It ferries 19 million passengers every day

- It carries 2.29 million tonnes of freight each day

- It is the largest employer with 1.39 million people

- It runs 125 hospitals across the country with 14,023 beds

- It runs 316 schools

-First train service was on April 16, 1853 when 400 guests in 14 carriages left Mumbai’s Bori Bunder for Thane.

– Indo-Asian News Service